In Love and Anger Milton Acorn Poet

Name: In Love and Anger Milton Acorn Poet
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-10-07
Duration: 52 min
Cast: Milton Acorn, Charlotte Gobeil

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NR 52 minDocumentary

This feature documentary profiles poet Milton Acorn who left his home in Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter and wound up in Toronto as one of Canadas most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures Dubbed The Peoples Poet by fellow poets he won the Governor Generals Literary Award in 1975 Burned out by personal crises Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981 This film directed by a PEI filmmaker brings out Acorns wit love of nature unorthodox political views and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions

StarringMilton AcornCharlotte Gobeil

DirectorKent Martin

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